During post-race interviews, the Mercedes driver had a closed expression, even masked: \u00ab Of course, it’s disappointing, but at least the team scored some points. For me, strategically, I was more on the defense than on the attack. It’s not ideal. I had to make one last pit stop. It’s a shame because the pace was good.<\/p>\n
Surely only the Finnish driver considers that his pace was good since he has never been in a battle with his two closest rivals, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, while Toto Wolff himself had radioed his protege to chase Max Verstappen during the second stint.<\/p>\n
Sergio Perez’s race, moving up from last to fifth place, could seriously worry the firm with the star in the perspective of the Constructors’ World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Finnish driver climbed onto the podium, after an almost solitary race in third place. The reigning world vice-champion was disappointed not to have been able to join the fierce battle between Hamilton and Verstappen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":36607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[473,1647],"class_list":["post-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-grand-prix-de-bahrein","tag-bottas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n